I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower.

She was a phantom of delightWhen first she gleamed upon my sight;A lovely apparition, sentTo be a moment's ornament.

In the words of the Scottish proverb, 'Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Se muere con demasiada facilidad. Morir deberÃ

Suddenly he stopped in front of me and asked for a cigarette. I had a package of Players in my pocket and wanted to give them to him. But he refused to take the whole package, saying quite calmly that obviously he didn't have time to smoke them all.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth—and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up—that we will begin to live each day to the fullest.

Facing death means facing the ultimate question of the meaning of life. If we really want to live we must have the courage to recognize that life is ultimately very short, and that everything we do counts.

Each day is God's gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.